Fastening device for ladies&#39; handbags or vanity-cases



S. W. SHEPARD.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR LADIES HANDBAGS 0R VANITY CASES.

APPLICATION men ear. :4, 1920.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

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ll Ill celluloid or other suitable material.

eneratin f SETH w. SHEPARD, or Lno /rINsTER, MASSACHUSETTS, AssrGNoa To THE nown COMB COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

FASTENING :onvrcn FOR LADIES nnnnnass on VANITY-ensue.

To all whom'z't may concern:

Be it known that I, SETH W. SHEPARD, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Leominster, in the county of Worcester and State'of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Fastening Device for Ladies Handbags or Vanity-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

' This inventionrelates to a fastening device especially adapted for use for fastening a hinged cover to the body of the article to which it is applied, as for example, a ladys hand bag or vanity case.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide a neat fastening device which will present no projecting'points that are likely to catch or tear articles being placed in or removed from the bag or case, and to so construct it that it will securely hold thecover even after long usage, will not mar it in any way, and will be simple and inexpensive.

Beference is to-be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of a ladys hand bag cover showing a preferred embodiment of this invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of a portion thereof on enlarged scale;

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the locking device disengaged, and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan of the cover.

The invention, although capable of use for other purposes, is shown as applied to a ring 10 constituting the top of a ladys hand bag and a cover 11 hinged thereto. These parts can conveniently be made of In the edge of the ring 10 at a point opposite the hinge is a depression below its surface in which is freely pivoted a shank 12. This is shown in the form of an ordinary brass pin having a head 13 and provided with a flattened end which is perforated for the reception of the pivot pin. This pivot pin is shown in the form of a wire 9 extending inside the cover and having its ends looped together. The shank 12 extends inside a globular member 14 and is provlded with a spring 15 inside bearing on the bottom or enlarged end of the member 14 and on the underside of the head of the shank or Specifieationof Letters ratent; pm nmd A 19 1921 Application filed October 14, 1920. Serial No. 416,983.

resiliently in position.

This member 14 isshown as made of two substantlally hemispherical parts having their edges locateddirectly opposite each other and'cemented to a flat ring 17. All

these parts may be made of celluloid. It

willbe seen that this holding member has a smooth convexlower surface.

In manufacture, the pin 12 is put into the lower half of the globular member with the spring underneath the head. The central ring and the other half of the globular member 14. When the cover is closed the gloublar member 14 is turned upwardly from the position shown in Fig. 4. The shank is made of just suflicient length so that when the globular member is forced up and slides over the edge of the perforation 20 the spring will have to be compressed in order toallow it to pass over. It is pushed over this point into the counter-sunk end of the perforation and the spring is left under compression. To disengage it, it is necessary to compress the spring still further in order to get the member 14 out of the countersunk depression. Therefore, this holds the cover firmly in position and there is practically no danger of its being opened accidentally. At the same time the parts are disengaged in the simplest possible manner merely by pushing the member 14 over to the left in Fig. 3, so that it swings into the position shown in Fig. 4. It will be seen, therefore, that this is a very simple and attractive fastening device and one that avoids the usual objection to those which have been used, namely, the presence of projecting angles and points.

Although I have illustrated and described only one form of the invention and shown it as applied'to one article only, I am aware of the fact that modifications may be made in the fastening device and that it can be aplied to vanity cases and various other artipin 12. This holds the globular member 14 55 cles. without departing from the scope .of i

the invention as expressed in the claims.

Therefore I do not wish to be limitedto all the details of construction herein shown and described or to the particular article illustrated, but what I do claim is 1. The combination with the top of a hand 7 bag and a cover hinged thereto and in contact therewith throughout its top surface, said top having a depression in its edge opposite the hinge, of a pivoted fastening device therefor comprising a freely swinging shank pivoted in said depression in the top, with a smooth surfaced globular holding member mounted thereon, said cover having an open-ended slot having a depression for receiving said holding member.

2. The combination with the annular top of a hand bag having a notch therein, and .a flat cover plvoted thereto, of a fastening the shank in position to hold the enlarged end yieldingly.

3. In a fastening device ror the purpose described, the combination of a pivoted shank having a head at the end remote from the pivot, a hollow globular member slidably mounted on said shank, and a spring inside the globular member bearing on its bottom and on the under side of the headof the shank, said globular member comprising similar hollow hemispherical members, and a central circular fiat plate on the opposite sides of which they are cemented, said plate having a central perforation for said shank. 4. In a fastening device'for the purpose described, the combination of a pivoted shank and a head at the end remote from the pivot constituting a hollow globular mem- SETH w. SHEPARD 

